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Friday, October 3, 2008

My Favorite Secret Ingredient

Last weekend while backpacking I received unearned praise after fixing an Asian backpacking feast. We kept the cold out of our bones with some Tom Yum soup and finished up with a green curry with coconut rice. It made me so happy to cook for a group of lovely ladies beside a glorious alpine lake.With this mix you only have to add some tomatoes, a bit of cilantro, and some dried mushrooms if you want and wha - la! You have a good, spicy soup!

I can't wait for next year.

Here is my secret ingredient: Asian Home Gourmet (at http://www.asianhomegourmet.com/)Another of my favorite flavors is the Cantonese Marinade - rub that on a pork loin and you have Chinese takeout. Pretty much all the Indian flavor packs make a chicken breast and some Trader Joe's frozen Nana into a 20 minute meal.

What I like about these flavor packs is that all the ingredients are recognizable - garlic, lemon grass, peppercorns and fish sauce. And, it makes you a gourmet cook at home or on the mountain.

Farmer Jo

English Language teacher by day, kitchen tinkerer by night. Traveler whenever possible.
Excited to begin teaching cooking classes for the young and young at heart at Turnip the Heat Cooking School. Turniptheheatcooking.com